There are many rules used to create music within noatikl. When the Noatikl music engine is figuring-out what to do, it combines all the rules you have told it to use, and respects them as best it can, but ultimately Noatikl makes its own choice as to exactly what to do. In other words, you can give the engine brain lots of guidance, but ultimately (like a child) you let Noatikl make the final, detailed decisions as to what to do.

One of the things that a first user of Noatikl might find, is that delegating responsibility to a music engine feels like a weird thing to do!

However, give this a little time. Many, many users of our generative software have found that this process of learning to sit-back and delegate responsibility for small details to a generative engine is extremely liberating. You instead start to focus on other things, like tweaking the sounds used to render the music, or just sitting back or wandering around enjoying what you are hearing in the background, waiting for nuggets of musical beauty to appear when you least expect them. Yes, you can focus on details in Noatikl, but you can also take more of a view of a  gardener's view to creating music: casting musical idea seeds on the ground, and selecting those ideas which blossom and discarding those that don't appeal.